| "My favourite genre lies inside myself, and as I follow my favourite stories, characters and images, it sums up to a certain genre." Bong Joon-ho |
| "I made so many films which were more important, but the only one people ever want to talk about is that one with Bogart." Ingrid Bergman |
| "Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional." Gene Kelly |
| "Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock." Park Chan-wook |
| "Filmgoers are starved for new ideas, voices and visions." Robert Redford |
| "Sometimes when you're heavy into the shooting or editing of a picture, you get to the point where you don't know if you could ever do it again." Martin Scorsese |
| "Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports." Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu |
| "I don't intentionally make my films with the express goal of surprising the viewer." Bong Joon-ho |
| "A film set is a workplace for me; it's my office, and nobody really wants to be in a stressful work environment." Park Chan-wook |
| "Well, first of all, you read the script a million times. Because what the script gives you are given circumstances. Given circumstances are all the facts of your character." Viola Davis |
| "All art is autobiographical. The pearl is the oyster's autobiography." Federico Fellini |
| "I can't do a film after having debated it. I am unable to do a film while discussing it with my team. I issue directives. I do not achieve it otherwise." Hayao Miyazaki |
| "People sometimes say the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually, it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal." Andy Warhol |
| "It's funny, in a way the actor is a writer. It's not like the two things are so separate as to be like apples and oranges. The writer and the actor are one." Sam Shepard |
| "Whatever your style or subject matter, in the end, film-making is about searching for authenticity - that is what the audience will divine." Paul Greengrass |
| "I realised that there's a more muscular approach to film-making that I found very inspiring." Kathryn Bigelow |
| "I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service." Alexander Payne |
| "Entertainment and art are not isolated." Martin Kippenberger |
| "I've learned one general thing in filmmaking: to work with one strong idea. One strong concept that pushes you to work in a certain way artistically." Darius Khondji |
| "I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas." Jean-Luc Godard |
| "I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting." Werner Herzog |
| "Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same." Hayao Miyazaki |
| "The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room." Orson Welles |
| "Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theatre, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world." Alan Rickman |
| "I am an animator. I feel like I'm the manager of a animation cinema factory. I am not an executive. I'm rather like a foreman, like the boss of a team of craftsmen. That is the spirit of how I work." Hayao Miyazaki |
| "My fascination with letting images repeat and repeat - or in film's case 'run on' - manifests my belief that we spend much of our lives seeing without observing." Andy Warhol |
| "A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper." Stanley Kubrick |
| "The intention was to shoot short films that can exist as shorts independently, but when I put them all together, there are things that echo through them like the dialogue repeats; the situation is always the same, the way they're shot is very simple and the same." Jim Jarmusch |
| "Animators can only draw from their own experiences of pain and shock and emotions." Hayao Miyazaki |
| "Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness." Pedro Almodovar |
